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=='''23 FEBRUARY9 MAY'''==
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|author=Natasha FarrantTom Percival|title=The Rescue of RavenwoodWrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This story Will's life is another excellent adventure from the author difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawkwrong shoes''. Ravenwood is an old house, in he has the North of England, where Bea wrong shoes because his dad can't work and Raffy doesn't have been living enough money for even the most basic of their lives. They are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leothings like food, and Raffy is there with his mumdad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and they are living together as a familyhad an accident. They have grown up swimming in Throw into that mix the covefact that his mum and dad are separated, roaming through the trees, completely at one with all of the nature around the house and loving Will's life seems bleak in every inch direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of the placehope. But now He is good at art, and clings to the house moments of joy when he is under threatdrawing, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell that feel like a light at the property to end of a developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to livelong, but if they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn downdark tunnel.|isbn=05713487851398527122
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=='''2 MARCH23 MAY'''==
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|author=Alice M RossOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Nowhere ThiefAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=At last there is new stock in Anuri spent her childhood on display to the impoverished yet overworld, thanks to her step-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she has stolen itposted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. She also knows Now Anuri is in her twenties and she should be free from worries about being found outis slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, because she has suing her step-mother to take down the ability to leave this worldcontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours failing to enter other worldsstart her PhD, where the sea levels are rising dramatically undergoing therapy and the buildings are generally empty of humans secretly abusing people online and ripe receiving money from them for plunderdoing so. With eviction imminentMost importantly, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yesshe is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the answernew focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, but and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…same time?|isbn=18399437690861546873
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1529504775Stuart Douglas|title=The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes Lowe and Katie HickeyLe Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Elsie During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and her little brother David loved to go to Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the park and watch dead body of a woman on the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side edge of the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficulta reservoir. One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was The police seem happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for assign it as cash was tight at home. Graduallyan accidental death, David learned to stand up, use but something about the bus for supportwhole thing bothers Lowe, and walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought he enlists the bus, now damaged and rustedhelp of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with ithelp him investigate matters further.}}{{Frontpage|author=Merryn Glover|title=The Hidden Fires|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary= It is always about They travel across the bookcountry during their days off filming, not the writeruncovering more possible murders and, but there are times when the author's hinterland is also the background to the book and so it is necessary to understand that contextseemingly, in order a link to appreciate death during the bookSecond World War. Merryn Glover But is of Australian parentage, was born in Kathmandu, grew up in there really a link between the Annapurna and Himalayan and now lives in Badenoch in Scotland. deaths? I can think of no-one better a combination And will they manage to give us a re-appraisal of Nan Shepherds work than the first Writer in Residence in the Cairngorms National Park. Merryn walks, not so much in the shadow of Shepherd, but in her spirit. I think the two would have gotten along famously.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=18469757511803368209
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=='''9 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0760378134|title=The First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=If you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, this is the book you need. It's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you're going to grow, what you'll grow it in (both containers and soil), where you'll put these containers, how you'll water and fertilise them and you finish the main part of the book with a handy section on troubleshooting. There's also a good glossary. So, is it any good?}} =='''16 MARCH6 JUNE'''==
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|author= Michael GrothausKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Beautiful Shining PeopleDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre= Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary= ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different thingsMeet Kit. And I'm willing to bet Like most of what we fear will never happenthe people in his world, or we can take steps to change it.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the question sport where a team of identity warrior, mage and acceptance. Of what it means healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to be humanthe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Of what Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is real that one team has been retired, eaten, and what a new trio of questors is artificialneeded. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, and whether he has taken to the goading from the development token bully of technology is exciting or frighteninghis world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=191458564X1839945184
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=='''30 MARCH13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Julia Bartz1635866847|title=The Writing RetreatLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone in It's strange, the world of publishing knows things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the namebook for you. Writers want to be her Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', agents want to represent herI visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. Shecom/ website] and there's something a picture of a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue slice of works chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of childhoodcake viscerally. Alex, (There's a writer-slash-editorrecipe in the book, is more than a little obsessed which I'm avoiding with Roza, some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and is stunned when, following I was told to make a series mess of unexpected events, she is invited it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be part of her month-long writersa problem. I ''loved'' retreatthis book already.|isbn=0861544439
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=='''4 JULY'''==
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|author=Patrick Ness and Tea BendixMax Boucherat|title=Different for BoysThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens Confident Readers|summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers herself no neighbour to pop in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining babysitter poorly, mother at the leash only a singlework, just an avidly rule-sex school can formbreaking eleven year old, the talk in class and out often turns to sexon her lonesome. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationshipblanket fort, a secret she has one, for several months nowmain intention, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0857051741|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson Investigation|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks is to live but he's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going log on to investigate Voxminer, the case of a body found in a freezer at the home of a deceased alcoholic. The problem is that the case has long passed the statute of limitations. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace in 1962. He was the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Strom. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fiftyworld-yearbuilding, critter-old case on which she can take no action: the problem is collecting game that this is a dying manhit in Lori's wishworld. The situation changes when But first Lori has a post-mortem establishes tiny inkling that Henry Pekkarithis stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, the dead alcoholic, was also murderedand then she finds something even more spooky. Is there a connection between For the two deaths?}}=='''13 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Saint|title=Atalanta|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''I was as worthy as any one server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of themtampering. I would get When malevolent eyes spark up on board that shipher phone screen, I vowed. I would take my and her safe place, not just in the name of the goddess. It was for the sake of my namegame has been doctored – well, too. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta where is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance girl to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her undoing.turn?|isbn=14722921540008666482
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